April 2007 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Status on AO-51 9K6 BBS
by Bruce Semple 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Is there any status update on when the AO-51 BBS will be made available to the "general public"

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Re: Dawn Arrives in Florida -- A Little After Dawn
by Luc Leblanc 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

I received some commenting regarding funny use of words and association i made with them. Could be i have some influence after all...:) On 10 Apr 2007 at 13:47, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrote: > MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE > JET PROPULSION LABORATORY > CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY > NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION > PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE 818-354-5011 > http://www.jpl.nasa.gov > > DC Agle 818-393-9011 > Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. > > George Diller 321-861-7643 > NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center, Fla. > > Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726/ > Tabatha Thompson 202-358-3895 > NASA Headquarters, Washington > > News Release: 2007-038 April 10, 2007 > > Dawn Arrives in Florida -- A Little After Dawn Rest of text cut here. "-" "It is not the class of license the amateur holds, but the class of the amateur that holds the license." Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE

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Homebrew USB interface for TS-790 & many other radios
by William Liporace - NA2NA 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Good afternoon, I have had a few requests for the homebrew interface for my TS-790. The first part is a product from a company called FTDI Chip http://www.ftdichip.com The product is a TTL-232R http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/TTL-232R.htm or the TTL-232R-3V3 http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/TTL-232R-3V3.htm They over a utility to invert the signals on ALL lines. This is a very important part of the project... The utility is called MPROG http://www.ftdichip.com/Resources/Utilities.htm#MProg >From what I have seen, all you need to Ground TXD & RXD, RTS & CTS were originally connected. I found that may of the programs do NOT configure these correctly... As a side note, I have a similar setup for my FT-1000. This was started for a project that WA1KKM & I have been working on for Linux. Walt has written a Linux based contest program. You can get more info at http://www.k2ct.net/kbsoftware/kbsoftware.htm I talked Walt into adding radio control for my rig. He has also created his own USB keying. Packet works... All sorts of goodies. 73 es TNX Will WC2L

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AMSAT Activities at Dayton
by Gould Smith 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

AMSAT will have many activities for the Amateur Satellite enthusiast during the 2007 Dayton Hamvention. We invite you to join us at all of these events. See the AMSAT web site for additional information and directions. http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/hamvention/Dayton2007.php Thursday 17 May 2007 - 1830 - 2200 EDT- Pizza and Suds Party at Marion's Piazza Friday 18 May 2007 - 0900 - 1800 EDT AMSAT Booth opens, Eagle area with operating components and outdoor Satellite Operating Demonstrations 1115 - 1400 EDT AMSAT Forum in Room 1 1700 - 1745 EDT IMAX movie "Space Station" special showing at the Air Force Museum 1800 - 2200 EDT AMSAT/TAPR Banquet at the Air Force Museum (order tickets from the AMSAT web site) Saturday 19 May 2007 - 0800 - 1700 EDT AMSAT Booth opens, Eagle area with operating components and outdoor Satellite Operating Demonstrations all day Sunday 20 May 2007 - 0800 - 1300 EDT AMSAT Booth opens, Eagle area with operating components and outdoor Satellite Operating Demonstrations It is important to make your Banquet reservations early, we will not be offering tickets at the booth this year. Ticket sales will end May 15th, before Hamvention begins. Order online at the AMSAT store or call Martha at the office. We need some volunteers to help man the AMSAT booth during Hamvention. Please send me an email (wa4sxm(a)amsat.org) if you can volunteer to help. We need volunteers for 2 hour shifts Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Also looking for volunteers to setup the booth Thursday afternoon and take down the booth Sunday afternoon.

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CubeSat launch 17Apr07 06:46:35UT
by Ralph Wallio, W0RPK 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

The next CubeSat launch is scheduled for 17Apr07 06:46:35UT via an ISC Kosmotras Dnepr launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Four-of-seven CubeSats will be using Amateur Radio frequencies and modes as follows: CalPoly PolySat CP3 436.845MHz (1W) 1200bps FM AFSK AX.25 (Part-5 experimental license) http://polysat.calpoly.edu/ CalPoly PolySat CP4 437.325MHz (1W) 1200bps FM AFSK AX.25 http://polysat.calpoly.edu/ University of Louisiana CAPE-1 435.245MHz (1W) 9600bps FM FSK AX.25 and CW telemetry during opposite 30sec intervals using call sign K5USL http://ulcape.org/wiki/Main_Page http://ulcape.org/wiki/CAPE1_Telemetry Forward received telemetry to jd.harrist(a)gmail.com Universidad Sergio Arboleda (Colombia) Libertad-1 437.405MHz (400mw) 1200bps FM AFSK AX.25 http://www.usergioarboleda.edu.co/proyecto_espacial/index.htm http://www.usergioarboleda.edu.co/proyecto_espacial/english_libertad.pdf Also see http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/ and http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/CubeSat.htm for more information. P-POD C (Preliminary) for 17Apr07 launch 1 xxxxxU xxxxxxxx 07107.29311609 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0000x 2 xxxxx 098.0870 182.3615 0084000 198.3918 339.9240 14.51600000 1x Preliminary First Orbit+ Schedule 17Apr07 06:46:35UT Launch 07:02 CubeSat separation 07:08 AOS South Africa 07:52 AOS Hawaii USA 07:59 AOS CalPoly CA USA 08:01 AOS KL7UW Alaska USA 08:20 AOS Northern Europe 08:25 AOS Central Europe & UK 09:17 AOS ZL1AOX New Zealand 09:42 AOS KL7UW Alaska USA 10:53 AOS ZL1AOX New Zealand 11:16 AOS Japan 11:30 CP3/CP4 start transmitting 12:32 AOS ZL1AOX New Zealand 15:04 AOS WØRPK Iowa USA TNX es 73 de Ralph Wallio, WØRPK W0RPK(a)netINS.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/ Hubbert's Peak - The Mother of all Perfect Storms

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CAT Control for TS-790A
by Eric H Christensen 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

I just got my USB controller for my TS-790A yesterday. Got it installed and all looks good. SatPC32 seems to recognize the port (it doesn't error out like it did when the wrong COM port was presented to the software originally). With that side working (I guess) the radio just sits there and doesn't do anything. I reviewed the manual for the 790 but it didn't have any instructions to make the radio start accepting CAT instructions. Anyone have one of these radios setup in this configuration that can help me out? 73s, Eric W4OTN

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Help with GS-232 UPDATE
by John Meeks 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

After checking all the settings suggested by the group and concluding that my expensive little Yaesu box was toasted, I set the SatPC32 SDX to 2400 baud and turned off the FIFO buffer on my com port. VOILA! I'm guessing the data was getting corrupted in the data buffer but have no idea why that would be the case. Thanks to all who replied with suggestions. Perhaps this fix will be googled from the archives in the future by someone having trouble passing data to the rotor controller. Now at least the FM birds will be hands free !! thanks and 73 KC8ZFN John Meeks

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Ham Radio Promoted on Charles Simonyi Website
by Trevor 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

It's good to see that Charles Simonyi, KE7KDP, has dedicated part of his website http://www.charlesinspace.com/ to Ham Radio. His "Kids' Space" page invites young people to "tune into the ham radio revolution" and details the ham radio school link ups he'll be taking part in during his stay on the International Space Station. I note he has a contact scheduled with a school in Redmond. Does anyone know if this school is attended by either of Bill Gates children and if so will they be taking part ? Charles in Space http://www.charlesinspace.com/ 73 Trevor M5AKA --------------- Daily Amateur Radio RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email your news items to: editor at southgatearc.org News On Your Website: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/index.htm News On Your PC: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/newsreader.htm Upload Your News: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news.htm --------------- ___________________________________________________________ Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Dayton Rooms
by MARTHA SARAGOVITZ 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

At this time, all 37 Dayton hotel rooms are gone! 73- Martha, AMSAT Manager

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N8xkz E-mail
by James Murray 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

have tried several times to e-mail you, but they all get sent back to me. If there is problem let me know Jim http://www.knology.net/~w4lwt

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